crepuscular
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prettygoodwordcrepuscular (kri-PUHS-kyuh-ler) - adj., of, related to, or resembling twilight, dim; active or occurring at dawn or dusk or both.
Bats, fireflies, and so on -- though if active during only dawn, matutinal is preferred, and if only at dusk, (spoiler alert!) vespertine. Since the 1660s, from New Latin crepusculāris, from Latin crepusculum, twilight, of obscure origin.
---L.
Bats, fireflies, and so on -- though if active during only dawn, matutinal is preferred, and if only at dusk, (spoiler alert!) vespertine. Since the 1660s, from New Latin crepusculāris, from Latin crepusculum, twilight, of obscure origin.
---L.
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Date: 2019-09-11 04:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-11 04:06 pm (UTC)ETA: There.